Speaking of narcissism, back when I still watched him for current events I got sick of all his personal anecdotes, so I started to play a game: every time I watched his videos I would cut it off the moment he started talking about himself.
The video that broke me and made me swear off Tim was the BLM blocking the hospital one. 40 seconds. This nigglet couldn't not talk about himself for 40 secs in a video about two cops who were shot and are in critical condition. I'd link the video, but as mentioned clicking on it would likely give my recommendation a YTD.
Yeah, I did more or less the same thing. I think what got me to stop watching altogether was his first interview with Corey DeAngelis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELUBV10-yEE
"Don't go to school." Is probably the worst advice I've ever heard and I do not like the public school system or its PC administration or it's Communistic control of the lunch line. School, for all its failures, does expose most people to a variety of subjects and the ability to systematically think about problems. Whether it's solving a math problem or outlining an essay, high school does teach how to sit down, focus, and organize. When you listen to Tim's story about WHY he dropped out of high school, it's absolutely the worst reason to quit school on so many levels:
1. He is close-minded. Listen to how dismissive he is to the Pythagorean Theorum, one of the most basic proofs in mathematics. I don't like math either, but it is the abstraction of the hard sciences. His dismissal of it being useless indicates a general disinterest in learning disguised as useless. So all his talk of being a social liberal is false because he is not a liberal by any definition.
2. Delinquency. "Show your work" is a legitimate order that's given by any math teacher. Why do they give this order? They give this order so that if you make a mistake, they can figure out where you made it. They also give this order to help the students develop a sense of sequential reasoning. Part of why Tim has as much cognitive dissonance as he has is because he didn't reason his way into what he believes. He doesn't think, "I said this, therefore I must go like that." The result, you can see in his politics, which makes no sense regardless of what side you're on.
3. He thinks he's justified. Normal people, when they think about high school, at least bother to ask themselves if they overreacted back then. Tim thinks he's completely right to act the way he did.
4. He recommends that everyone do this at 3:39. Tim had unique circumstances and luck happened to favor him. Back when he was a real journalist, he was on the ground and livestreamed the event as it happened. People liked him and were willing to take a chance on a guy that didn't have a GED. So, when he recommends everyone drop out of school, what do you think will happen? That they'll turn into a generation of Tim Pools? Even DeAngelis thought it was a bridge too far.
At that point, he crossed the line from just being dumb in politics to giving bad life advice to other people.